Blackmagic Design

SD to HDMI Mini Converter

Blackmagic Design's founders have had a long history in post-production
editing and engineering. With extensive experiences in high-end telecine,
film and post, harnessed with a real passion for perfection, Blackmagic set
out to change the industry forever.

Blackmagic has created some of the most talked about products in the
industry. This started in November 2002, when they launched the DeckLink capture card and in
doing so single-handedly made working in true 10 bit uncompressed video on a
Macintosh OS X™ system an affordable reality. The DeckLink card has become a
market-leading product due to Blackmagic Design's philosophy of delivering
"what ever it takes to give creative editors and designers the very best
quality tools".

Blackmagic Design has set the standard for an entire
industry. With innovation and quality at the heart of every project,
Blackmagic launched a rapid succession of amazing products for creative
people.

We have a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
on demo, plus a Video Assist, and have been using it with various (older) lenses, including building a rig to
use 2/3" B4 zoom lenses with the BMPCC (pictured below). See
B4 lens tests here.

Blackmagic product overview

All Decklink & UltraStudio devices can output 8 or 10bit uncompressed
video over SDI with embedded audio. The different models have additional
combinations of analogue and digital I/O. They also include an RS422 port and
software for controlling any VTR that uses Sony-compatible RS422 protocol, which
covers most professional and broadcast decks.

For Windows users, there are plug-ins to make the Decklink work
with Adobe Premiere Pro v1.51/2.0/CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC and
perform deck control for batch capture and accurate print to tape. Read more about
I/O cards

HyperDeck Shuttle is a solid state recording device
that bypasses your camera’s
compression and records from SDI and HDMI direct into the highest quality
uncompressed video, dramatically improving the quality of professional or
consumer cameras! HyperDeck Shuttle is compact, affordable and battery
powered so it’s perfect as a field recorder, giving you the quality of
uncompressed recording direct to common low cost SSDs in the smallest
possible size.

Avoid being locked into one NLE or color
grading system with a proprietary codec that could become obsolete at any
time. HyperDeck Shuttle captures universally compatible uncompressed
QuickTime files that can be used with all popular software packages.
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We have an Atem Television Studio vision mixer on demo at our Manchester base

What we're about . . .
ZEN is not a traditional Audio-Visual dealer who started selling computers,
nor is it a computer shop that also sells video products. You won't
get any salesmen giving you the "hard-sell" when you call, just
straightforward advice and information - which for some callers is the
knowledge that they don't need to buy whatever it is they thought they
needed! Above all you'll be dealing with someone with a wide range of
experience and knowledge of both PCs and video production. We're not the
biggest, nor necessarily the cheapest, but we are one of the longest
established computer/video specialists in the UK.

Company history . . .
ZEN was started in the 1980s by Martin Kay, then working for ITV at
Granada's Manchester studios, who built his first 6502-based computer in
1979 from an Ohio Scientific kit, bought in the USA whilst working as a
Sound Recordist on a
film shoot for World In Action. With the advent of the Amiga, which could be gen-locked
to a video source, Martin started writing a variety of video-related software. This
included subtitling & tele-prompting, ident clocks, scoring software for
sports & gameshows, and specialist software to mimic other computer
displays for
use in TV film dramas like Cracker, Prime Suspect and A Touch of Frost.
Martin left Granada in 1993 to concentrate on his computer-video activities
with ZEN, following a natural path into non-linear editing systems,
for many years the main business activity, although he still maintains an active
interest in video production.